How to Use woe in a Sentence

woe

noun
Definition of woenext
Synonyms for woenext
  • The city's traffic woes are well-known.
  • And woe to the one who, in the eyes of the receiver, gives something unwanted.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Adding Udoka isn't anything close to a panacea for the woes ailing the Rockets.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • His woes started with neck pain, then progressed to dry heaves and headaches.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The answer to your storage woes might be hiding under the bed.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2023
  • More Trouble for Tesla The news adds to Tesla’s woes to start 2024.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
  • If the library cedes greater control to the county over which books stay and go, the budget woes would go away.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But there are some clear dos and don'ts when talking about money woes with your kids.
    — Emily Edlynn, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The criminal case is only the most recent of the couple’s woes.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • This is a standard that the women themselves are keenly aware of, and woe betide the MILF who doesn’t fit the bill.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Thinning hair has to be one of the most frustrating haircare woes of all time.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • And polls show voters have a dour view on the economy -- and mostly blame Biden for their woes.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This isn’t the first time Cornyn has been critical of Paxton and his many legal woes.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Say goodbye to laundry woes and hello to fresh, clean threads.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The drones are meant to ease human workers' warehouse woes and injuries.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Kyle's been playing her marital woes close to the vest and both viewers and her costars have noticed.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The Wolves had 13 steals in the game and only turned the ball over eight times compared to 19 for Liberty, but that wasn’t enough with their late shooting woes.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The 977-mile DeLorean hadn’t suffered some of the woes McElhattan had seen in hundreds of other cars over the years.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In this cycle, the tech industry’s woes aren’t the result of dot-com vaporware.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The inflation and job market woes seen in the United States are echoed across almost all major economies.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Exercise on its own can be linked to GI woes due to jostling and the diversion of blood flow away from the gut (hello, runner’s trots).
    — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But Xi can’t hide China’s economic woes—or hide from them.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There have been signs of that this year with the folding of Virgin Orbit and Astra's financial woes.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Although the stakes are high, Trump's civil fraud case barely scratches the surface of his legal woes.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The building’s woes have even helped Obama and Trump health officials find common ground.
    — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • There’s no sign that Trump’s legal woes will go away or get better anytime soon, if ever.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And regardless of its current woes, wine is too strong a part of France’s identity for the market to go anywhere.
    — Caroline Anders, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • One of the greatest things about skincare in the 21st century is that there is a non-invasive treatment for every kind of woe.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But despite the labor woes affecting the industry, Ghai said the wage hike would only spur him to install more self-service kiosks.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

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